Geiger Counter
2010-03-01, 11:04 PM
I'm house ruling that where demons and devils had DR overcome by good, devils DR is now overcome by chaotic weapons and demons DR is overcome by lawful weapons. I really like the idea that good creatures wether lawful or chaotic will band together when needed, but evil creatures will hate and fight eachother. Good creatures tend to hate evil creatures, but evil creatures don't necessarily hate good creatures. They might see good creatures as weak and unworthy, but they truly hate creatures who are their ideological opposites. So a devil is more willing to attack a creature of any chaotic alignment than any good alignment, and a demon is more willing to attack a creature of any lawful alignment than any good alignment. Neutral evil creatures are apolitical and are willing to do whatever gains them profit.
This song really reminds me of the NE alignment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
I recently seen the movie Dante's inferno, It is now one of my favorite movies. However one thing that is inconsistent is the mortality of souls. Apparently tons of souls are completely immortal, suffering unending tortures, however Dante was able to kill a bunch of petitioners. I am wondering what is the proper way to deal with the death of an outsider? How do you deal with it.
I noticed there are several types of outsider that really deserve their own type. First there is creatures who are basically just intelligent features of their home plane, genies fit this role to a Tee. I'm thinking they leave no bodies when they die, as their essences simply returns to their home plane. The second type is petitioners, Lexx gives a great example of how this should work. In the third season of Lexx, they found the physical locations of heaven and hell, the two planets water and fire. Humans there are not born, they simply appear without any memories. I do not believe they need to eat sleep or age. The only exception is prince who does retain his memories when he dies, but he is almost akin to a deity. I don't think either of these types of outsider should be capable of normal sexual reproduction, but they should be capable of mutating offspring, like Femto did in berserk. The third kind is biological creatures who have evolved in a plane with unusual traits, I am obliged to reclassify all these creatures as aberrations. These include aasimar, tieflings, vardragouiles, slaad, formians, aboleths, kuatoa, beholders and ilithids. Any creature that can reproduce normally (like an organism and not a being of pure essence) isn't an outsider in my books.
In planescape most devils are of the second type, where as in eberron all devils are of the first type. The native vs extraplanar subtype is very misleading. In eberron rakshasa are home to the material plane but azers are home to Fernia.
Another thing I've noticed is how much better developed good and evil outsiders are than lawful and chaotic outsiders. The Formians conquer and enslave everything in their path, this makes them LE not LN. Slaad infect people to reproduce, this makes them any evil, not CN.
How do you personally handle exemplars of the LN and CN alignments?
Also I would love to hear stories about the use of outsiders in general.
This song really reminds me of the NE alignment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
I recently seen the movie Dante's inferno, It is now one of my favorite movies. However one thing that is inconsistent is the mortality of souls. Apparently tons of souls are completely immortal, suffering unending tortures, however Dante was able to kill a bunch of petitioners. I am wondering what is the proper way to deal with the death of an outsider? How do you deal with it.
I noticed there are several types of outsider that really deserve their own type. First there is creatures who are basically just intelligent features of their home plane, genies fit this role to a Tee. I'm thinking they leave no bodies when they die, as their essences simply returns to their home plane. The second type is petitioners, Lexx gives a great example of how this should work. In the third season of Lexx, they found the physical locations of heaven and hell, the two planets water and fire. Humans there are not born, they simply appear without any memories. I do not believe they need to eat sleep or age. The only exception is prince who does retain his memories when he dies, but he is almost akin to a deity. I don't think either of these types of outsider should be capable of normal sexual reproduction, but they should be capable of mutating offspring, like Femto did in berserk. The third kind is biological creatures who have evolved in a plane with unusual traits, I am obliged to reclassify all these creatures as aberrations. These include aasimar, tieflings, vardragouiles, slaad, formians, aboleths, kuatoa, beholders and ilithids. Any creature that can reproduce normally (like an organism and not a being of pure essence) isn't an outsider in my books.
In planescape most devils are of the second type, where as in eberron all devils are of the first type. The native vs extraplanar subtype is very misleading. In eberron rakshasa are home to the material plane but azers are home to Fernia.
Another thing I've noticed is how much better developed good and evil outsiders are than lawful and chaotic outsiders. The Formians conquer and enslave everything in their path, this makes them LE not LN. Slaad infect people to reproduce, this makes them any evil, not CN.
How do you personally handle exemplars of the LN and CN alignments?
Also I would love to hear stories about the use of outsiders in general.